Bob Noyce Quotes

#1. From the beginning at Intel, we planned on being big.

Robert Noyce

#2. Back in the days of Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis, beauty wasn't the be-all and end-all it is today.

Marcia Gay Harden

#3. easy to love. easy to loose.

Arzum Uzun

#4. The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her ... She is Molly.

Phillip Noyce

#5. Well, I don't know what they'll turn out to be, but I'm working on a film of Kon Tiki.

Phillip Noyce

#6. I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.

Shannon Miller

#7. After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but also have some actors that had no attitude.

Phillip Noyce

#8. So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression.

Phillip Noyce

#9. I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.

Phillip Noyce

#10. Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!

Phillip Noyce

#11. Don't be encumbered by history, just go out and do something wonderful.

Robert Noyce

#12. I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

Randy Quaid

#13. Ever since a small boy, I have loved just to look at the mountains, to see them in different lights and from different angles, to feel their rough rock under my fingers and the breath of the winds against my feet ... I am in love with the mountains.

Wilfrid Noyce

#14. Optimism is an essential ingredient of innovation. How else can the individual welcome change over security, adventure over staying in safe places?

Robert Noyce

#15. Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.

Phillip Noyce

#16. Why does everything exist that exists, and why do I exist?"
"Because it exists.

Leo Tolstoy

#17. I no longer knew what it was like to feel Australian.

Phillip Noyce

#18. Start with a growing market. Swim in a stream that becomes a river and ultimately an ocean. Be a leader in that market, not a follower, and constantly build the best products possible.

Robert Noyce

#19. When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.

Ian McEwan

#20. ...people don't think in churches.

[Noyce on what bothers him most about organized religion.]

Robert Noyce

#21. The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them.

Phillip Noyce

#22. A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia.

Phillip Noyce

#23. Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions.

Phillip Noyce

#24. Do you think he's the murderer?"
"It's worse than that
he's an actor!

Julian Fellowes

#25. Oh yeah - I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn't seen that film, inevitably the camera would've ended up on top of that mast, I mean if you think of it there are only so many dynamic shots on a boat.

Phillip Noyce

#26. Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face.

Phillip Noyce

#27. People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct.

Phillip Noyce

#28. You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of responsibility to the bank.

Phillip Noyce

#29. Sex is not a mechanical act that fails for lack of technique, and it is not a performance by the male for the audience of the female; it is a continuum of attraction that extends from the simplest conversation and the most innocent touching through the act of coitus.

Garrison Keillor

#30. If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans ... When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man.

Wilfrid Noyce

#31. Innovation is everything. When you're on the forefront, you can see what the next innovation needs to be. When you're behind, you have to spend your energy catching up.

Robert Noyce

#32. There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either.

Phillip Noyce

#33. If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.

Robert Noyce